FRIB Experimental Bridge Faculty Position program

FRIB has established a bridge faculty program to enhance the opportunities for faculty hires at U.S. research universities with a focus on experimental research at FRIB or developments relevant for science at FRIB. 

For the 2024-2025 year, we called for proposals from academic institutions for bridge faculty searches. The deadline for complete proposals to be submitted was 1 October 2024. Proposal requirements are described here (PDF).

Bridge faculty

• Bridge faculty are outstanding junior experimentalists who hold the promise to pursue strong experimental research programs based at FRIB or developments for FRIB. 
• Bridge faculty are 100-percent employees of their home institution, with all the associated benefits. 
• Bridge faculty are expected to build a research group, attract federal funding, and have teaching and other duties, equivalent to the other faculty at their home institution. 
• In addition, bridge faculty are expected to contribute significantly to the scientific program at FRIB and be spokespersons for FRIB science, nationally and internationally. 
• They are expected to spend time at FRIB and, for this reason, teaching relief could be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

In the first round for the 2023-2024 year, two faculty searches were approved at the physics departments of Mississippi State University and the University of Kentucky.